PSYC 2740 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 - Personality Intro
15 Dec 2011
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Refers to relatively stable individual differences that are believed to present early in life and involves characteristics that generalize across time and across situations. Derived from the ancient greek word-meaning persona. A person interested in the study of personality is called a personologist: have a great interest in finding out how people differ and why they differ. describe personality differences as completely as possible: description, explanation, prediction. make predictions about personality in the future based on what is currently known about personality. Personality goals from an idiographic versus nomothetic perspective. The five ws: who, what, when, where, and why. Who: who is the person, descriptive perspective: who are the people this person differs from, nomathetic: identifying groups of people, in terms of who they are, relative to other people. Most people characterized by well-articulated implicit personality theories: developed a tendency o link together certain personality characteristics in our minds.
